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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[Oct. 13, 1893. 



UNITED STATES FIELD TRIAL DERBY, 



Editor Forest and St/ream: , , 



I send you list ot dogs remaining in thelTnited btates Field 

 Trial Club's Derby. Pointers 34, English setters 48, Irish 

 setter 1 : 



POINTERS. 



Onwabd— G. W. Amory's dog (Wise C— Velce V.)- 

 Box's FAUST— Adolph Schmidt's dog (Spotted Boy— Sally 

 Ale). 



Kent Elgin— T. T. Ashford's dog (King of Kent— Vera 



^ c'^osiE O'Bannok— R. L. Shannon's bitc5b (King of Kent 

 — Croxie Wise). _ 



MAME— R. L. Shannon's bitch (Brown Stout- Pearl's 

 Pr de). 



Ginger Ale— R. L. Shannon's bitch (Osborn Ale— Pearl's 

 Pride). 



Kent's Mike— J. F. Pautler's dog (King of Kent— Crox- 



RiDGEViEW Dttke— Drake Sefton Kennels' dog (Beppo IIL 

 — Blithesome). 



RiDOEViEW Duchess— Dralie Sefton Kennels' bitch (Beppo 

 nr.- Blitbesome). 



RiDGEViEW PATCH— Drake Sefton Kennels' bitch (Beppo 

 IIL— Ladv Norrisb IL). 



LADY Peg— W. T. Hunter's bitch (King of Kent— Lass of 

 Bliotno) 



PoMME DE Teurb— T. G. Barstow's dog (Ossian— Clipa- 

 way II.). 



Lad of Rush— J. L.Adams's dog (Rush of Lad— Topsy L.). 

 Daisy Socwell— J. L. Adams's bitch (Ossian— Devon- 

 shire Jilt). 



Bonnie Lass— Ed A. Gordon's bitch (Earl of Kent— Car- 

 lotta). 



Kent's Queen— Johh Bolus's bitch (King of Kent— -Vera 

 Bang). 



Brandy— C. H. Wetmore's (Agt.) dog (Wetmore Guy— 

 Wetmore Bud). 



Bang's Star— Lewis Stuehmeyer's dog (Trinket's Bang- 

 Pearl's Fan). 



Springata— David Castleman's bitch (Castleman's Krup 

 — Soringa). 



Varro— -J. B. Castleman's bitch (Rex— Castleman's Nell). 



Mainos— J. B. Castleman's bitch (Castleman's Res— 

 Castleman's Nell). 



Croxie Kent— Bob Cooper's bitch (King of Kent— Croxie 

 Wise). 



Ridgeview Beppo— Graphic Kennels' dog (Beppo III.— 

 Revelation). 



Ridgeview Tenney— D. L, Darby's dog (Beppo III.— 

 Blith'»8ome). 



Ridgeview Climax— Harold Strebeigh's bitch (Tribula- 

 tion— Bloomo II.). 



EaPvL of Kent— Gus F. Schrever's dog (King of Kent— 

 Sil). 



Kent's Maid— H. J. Reginald's (agent) bitch (King of 

 Kent — Gtlena). 



Monkey Smokeless— C. W. Meeker's dog (Ossian— Devon- 

 shire Jilt). 



Biz— W. Hinckle Smith's dog (King of Kent— Lass of 

 Bloomo). 



Don (;.— Geo. A. Castleman's dog (Rank— Fly) 



Ten-Sleep— Edgmont Pointer Kennels' dog (King of Kent 

 — Woolton Game). 



Troublesome— Edgmont Pointer Kennels' bitch (Tribula- 

 tion — Pride of Idstone). 



DAVID C— Jos. Crugom's dog (Duke of Hessen— Princess 

 Marguerite). 



Princess Dolly— Jos. Crugom's bitch (Duke of Hessen — 

 Princess Marguerite). 



ENGLISH setters. 



Hoosier Girl— J. H. & J. A. Hunter's bitch (Dad Wilson 

 — Daisy Hunter). 



Hoosier Lady— Frank Hitchcock's bitch (Dad Wilson- 

 Daisy Hunter). 



Hope's Pride— Manchester and Wartrace Kennels' dog 

 (Gath's Hope— Georgia Belle). 



Pink— Manchester and Wartrace Kennels' dog (Vanguard 

 —Georgia Belle). 



Ranger B. — Manchester and Wartrace Kennels' dog 

 (Vanguard— Georgia Belle). 



Sport — Manchester and Wartrace Kennels' dog (Van- 

 guard—Georgia Belle). 



Toledo Sue— Manchester and Wartrace Kennels' bitch 

 (Toledo Blade— Belle S ). 



Clem Gladstone— John L. Sneed's dog (Paul Glad stone 

 — Latonia). 



Dan's Lady— Theo. Goodman's ditch (Dan Gladstone- 

 Lilly Burgess). 



Apollo Hill— J. Shelly Hudson's dog (Ben Hill— 

 Dolly S.). 



Direct— J. W. Shriver's dog (Gun— Victoria Laverack). 

 Clio— J. W. Shriver's bitch (Gun— Victoria Laverack). 

 Gale Noble— H. K. Devereux's bitch (Breeze Gladstone — 

 Katie Noble). 



Rex-the-King— Jackson and Denmark Kennels' dog 

 (Laddie Brnwdre- Phyllis). 



Lillian Russell— Jackson and Deiunark Kennels' bitch 

 (Philip Gladstone— Lou K.). 



Duff— W. T. Hunter's bitch (Toss— Patti Sing). 



Gladstone's Pet— W. T. Hunter's bitch (Roderigo— 

 Gladstone's Girl). 



Cecil H— J. L. Adams's dog (Dr. Maclin— Cossette). 



Sir Kent— J. L. Adams's dog (Kent IL— Nicolette). 



Dan Burgess— .J. M. Freeman's dog (Dan Gladstone- 

 Lilly Burgess.) 



Brighton Clip— T. G. Davey's bitch (Canadian Jester- 

 Lassie). 



The Laggard— Meadow City Kennels' dog (Roderigo— 

 Gladstone's (IrirL). 



Dixie's Rod— W. G. Peters and J. E. Guinotte's dog 

 (Roderigo— Dashing Dixie). 



Sunflower— N. B. Nisbett's, (Agt.) bitch (Dick Turner 

 — Babf* Gladstone). 



RAP-ETE-l)A^r— Will Wilson's dog (Ben Hill— Dolly S.). 



SAisrcHO— Wm. Daniels's (Agt.) dog (Tipton— Mmd). 



Fly— Wm. Daniels's (Agt.) bitch (Tipton— Maud). 



Pembroke's Blue Grouse— Scott's Wood Kennels' dog 

 (Pembroke's Don— Sue of Hatchie). 



Ruby Bondhu— T. W. Stoutenburg's bitch (Dick Bon- 

 dhu— Cassette). 



Fling— Bei-t Crane's bitch ( ). 



Dan's Dan— T. H. Poindexter's (Agt.) dog (Dan Glad- 

 stone— Bel ton's Princess). 



Gaiety — Royal Robinson's bitch (Lone Jack — Gav 

 Rhre.be). 



Dessie Hope— P» T. Madison's bitch (Gath's Hope- 

 Stocking). 



Proctor Knott— Blue Ridge Kennels' dog (Gath's Hope- 

 Dashing Lady). 



Hope's Mlnt— Blue Ridge Kennels' dog (Gath's Hope- 

 Dashing Lady). 



Lancier— Blue Ridge Kenr els' dog (Gath's Hope— Stock- 

 ing). 



Dick Fox -Blue Ridge Kennels' dog (Chance— Countess 

 Rush). 



LADY Brooks— Bine Ridge Kennels' bitch (Chance- 

 Countess Rush). 



^^StewArt Hill— Bradford Kennels' dog (Ben Hill— Kate 



LocHiNYAR — Avent & Thayer's dog (Chance — Bessie 

 ^vent). 



^ Jiji^^fgTPS- Avent & Thayer's dog (Cbance-ge-ssie Avent). 



Shadow— Avent & Thayer's bitch (Jean Val Jean— Lucy 

 Avent). 



NANcy Foreman- A. J. Gleason's bitch (Dan Foreman— 

 Hope''s Lucille). 



LadyBelton— T. M. Lowry's bitch (Tennessee Bob— Dixie 

 Belton). 



Belle op Kentucky— Fairmount Kennels' bitch (Dad 

 Wilson— Bohemian Giri). 



Princess Ray— Geo. A. McLin's bitch (Prince Lucifer— 

 Princess Li 11). 



Teal Swinge— Henry Schwinge's dog C — ). 



Baby Blue— F. H. Harris's bitch (Blue King— Kate). 



IRISH SETTERS. 

 Elphin— E. B. Bishop's bitch (Tyconnell— KinVatra). 



P. T. MADLSON, Secretary. 



lNDIANA3?OX.IS, Ind. 



POINTS AND FLUSHES. 



Unbroken Dogs. 



Chicago, Oct, 8.— Now that the field trial season is near, 

 there are some matters which should be carefully considered 

 as tending to improve the equality of the competition and 

 a better ^^nderstanding of its principles. 



Of first importance is the matter of training, since with- 

 out a thorough training no dog is properly prepared to enter 

 a competition with justice to himself or his competitors. 

 Moreover, no judge can properly grade an unbroken or 

 partly broken dog's merit in a competition. It 'often hap 

 pens that the half-broken dog is working for himself, the 

 restraint imposed l^y an imperfect education giving his 

 efforts a semblance of working to the gun. The enthusi- 

 astic and energetic work of the half-broken dog may he 

 mistaken for an exhibition of a high order of ufltural quali- 

 ties. But the worthlessness of such an exhibition, from a 

 competitive standpoint, is in its Uncertainty. Many dogs 

 will hunt diligently for themselves, as they practically can 

 do when half-broken. When properly broken thev lose in- 

 terest, hunt listlessly, lazily, or perhap.'f not at all. They 

 may Jove to hunt for themselves, but are not enthusiastic 

 or industrious enough to work to the gun. 



The work of the half-broken dog is of itself most difficult 

 to value relatively, since one moment he may do a most 

 brilliant piece of work in a bold, dashing manner, and in 

 the next moment make a most silly blunder. The absence 

 of the finished performance which comes from thorough 

 knowledge, experience and training is always palpably 

 absent in such dogs, yet the brilliant work which comes 

 from reckless self-hunting is too often over-valued by judges. 



Natural Qualities. 



I believe in considering only the natural qualities in a 

 field trial competition, yet I never believed in the natural 

 qualities of the untrained dog as the standard The latter 

 view has been eagerly presented by some impractical writers 

 as that of the modern field trial' man. By defining it to 

 please themselves, and then presenting it as the true^ defini- 

 tion, they make a fair argument. However, no field trial 

 man is an advocate of natural qualities independent of 

 thorough training. It is a term, used in a field trial sense, 

 to distinguish between matters, of actual performance and 

 matters of education. The individual capabilities of the dog 

 as applied in a trained manner constitute his natural quali- 

 ties. The need of the term was more apparent some years 

 ago than it is now, when matters purely educational were al- 

 lowed and abstractly valued in the scale of points. For in- 

 stance, quartering was valued at whether the dog had any of 

 the knowledge and its application, now called bird sense, a 

 quality not then recognized in a competition. Retrieving was 

 valued at 10, pace 20, backing 7, style (i, quartering 6. Thus, 

 in round numbers. 50 per cent, of a dog'.s performance was 

 acquired, artificial or ornamental properties rating as high 

 as the practical. 



It will thus be seen that at that time there was need of a 

 distinction between the educational and the natural. 



Obstructing Competitors. 



While the unbroken dog is a most variable cliaracter in a 

 field trial, he is a source of endless annoyance and material 

 injury to his competitors. His wildness at the outset never 

 fails to infect his competitor, and the more spirited and 

 capable is the latter, the more is his performance injured. 

 If his points are stolen, his birds flushed or chased, or if he 

 is constantly followed or headed in his ranging, be becomes 

 jealous, excited or irritated, resulting in errors in his own 

 work, which would not occur were he hunted with a pro- 

 perly behaved dog. The well broken dog is at a further dis- 

 advantage in constantly hearing loud whistling and orders 

 given to his half-broken competitor, and the most harmful 

 feature is that these orders are always directly contrary to 

 what the well broken dog is doing or should do. If he is 

 drawing to a point, he does so with the opposing handler's 

 wh istle blowmg furiously, ostensibly to call his own dog in 

 to join in the find. Times innumerable I have seen the well 

 broken dog turned back by that cause when drawing on 

 birds or pointing. If the dog points, he does so under much 

 the same adverse circumstances, while the opposing handler 

 is getting his unmanageable dog in to back. His range also 

 is constantly changed or broken. All these circumstances 

 are greatly aggravated if the opposing handler have a string 

 of whistles, from which he can select one to imitate any 

 other whistle. In short, the well trained dog does his work 

 hearing orders in brawling tones or shrill whistling, which 

 are directly contrary in intent to what he should do. 



To aggravate this evil as much as possiljle, it is said that 

 some trainers teach their dogs to go on to a blast of the 

 whistle, and I am disposed to believe that it is true. 



The blast of the whistle which sends his own dog on will 

 call his opponent's dog in, it thu.s serving a double purpose. 

 When I first heard this, I did not believe that any trainer 

 would be guilty of such an unfair and dishonest practice. 

 It is to be regretted that the shark should get into what 

 shoirld be sportsmanship, which embodies lionesty, fair play 

 and good fellowship. This is worthy the earnest consicfera- 

 tion of field trial clubs and judges. They should see that 

 the whistle is applied to its legitimate tise. Field triais are 

 now everywhere run in the interest of fair play and the best 

 dogs winning. It is only necessary to point out an evil to 

 have it removed. The day of the shark, jockey and trickster 

 is gone in field trials forever. 



As to the remedy for half-broken dogs, it is easy and avail- 

 able. Spot them out in the first series. There is no excuse 

 whatever for a professional trainer bringing a hal f-brokeu dog 

 into a field trial. The loud orders, constant whistling and 

 rough work are unnecessary and itnskillful. Even the 

 Derby allows an age limit which admits of thorough train- 

 ing and experience. The recent trials in Manitoba demon- 

 monstrated that amatevu'S could take tborougiy broken, 

 honest dogs to the trials, and do quiet, pleasant handling, 

 and do it eifectively. 



The Bluffer. 



There is a bugaboo growing in field trials. The breeder 

 who is displeased announces that he will run no more dogs 

 under such-and-such a club or such-and-such a judge. In the 

 first place, the professional breeder does not run his dogs at 

 any time for the benefit of any club. His motives in ruunincr 

 are strictly personal. A threat to withdraw his dogs or not 

 enter them commonly has the efl:ect to bring a club to its 

 knees, and the kicker is so deferred to, coddled and mollified, 

 that he soon gets an over- weaning self s al uaiion and an 

 exalted toploftiuess. If a club would stop a moment to con- 



sider that they could get along well without such a person- 

 age, and in some ways be gainers, while the professional 

 breeders must run at field trials to keep up their kennel 

 interests, such club could easily burst the kicker's weak 

 bluff by letting him stay at home. About one such lesson 

 would effectually destroy his entire .stock of bluffs. Field 

 trials now are so well supported that they can frankly defy 

 the bluffer for advertising or for revenue. 



A La Cbrfeett; 



I saw a little incident on West Madison street a few days 

 ago-, which afforded an optical demonstration of compara- 

 tive anatomy and comparative psychology in action. Thete 

 were two men and two dogs as central figures. The big 

 shaggy dog was owned by a venerable old man, bent with 

 age. He wore deep wrinkles, a full gray beard, a thread- 

 bare suit, a hat of ancient vintage and .shoes of the Stradi- 

 varius model. In one hand he carried a tin pail, in the 

 other a cheap stick. He was going to the grocery. The 

 haughty fat pug was owned by a semi dude young man on 

 whose cheek shone the rich glow of cream of roses. This 

 young man and his pug had a supercilious air which no one 

 seemed to notice particularly. The young man carried 

 something in his hand that looked like a roll of wall paper. 

 There was something in the pug's high-bred air whlsh 

 offended the dog of the people. Hostilities opened quickly: 

 the shaggy dog rushing his fat enemy into a, coi7ner and 

 knocking him down. "The pUg was so fat and round that 

 his enemy's Jaws, slipped har.shly over the sur- 

 face ribs, thus, by keeping his form, he foiled 

 several vicious upper cuts. An emotional bystander 

 gave the shaggy dog a prodigious whack in the ribs 

 with a silver-headed cane, another man gave him a kick, 

 while the old man gave the pug a resounding whack with 

 the tin pail. Up to this time, the pretty young man ap- 

 peared a bit dazed, and did not realize what was doing or 

 what action to take. The whack in the ribs of the shaggy 

 dog ended the first round. The pug ran out into the sti:fe6"t 

 with three cUrls in his tail and a look of af) prehension. The 

 shaggy dog ran around the crowd, closed on the pug and 

 pinned him to the gfoUnd, but he still held his good form 

 and the enemy's teeth kept slipping, although the slips must 

 have been painful. Dogs and men then got mixed up. The 

 old man was showing a good deal of activity, yet somehow 

 he didn't appear to get^his dog in hand. The young man 

 started in actively to save his dog, rushing here and there. 

 Failing to get his dog, he gave the old man a vicious whack 

 with the roll on the back of the neck, which startled him, 

 then he rushed in and got his dog. The pug was showing 

 alarm, the shaggy was balked but not satisfied. The young 

 man said things to the old man and it looked kinder 

 unsettled for the old man. The latter with dignity walked 

 into a grocery store. The young man waxed still hottet. 

 He gave his dog in charge of a spectator find followed the 

 old man into the store. The spectators followed and 

 grown men were heard to say that it was a shame to treat 

 an old man that way. It could be plainly read on their 

 faces that if the young man put his hands on the old man 

 again something would happen to the young man, It soon 

 ended. The storm was over. Everybody started on their 

 way and then a policeman could be seen coming about two 

 blocks away. He was too late, which rarely happens in 

 Chicago. No self-respecting policeman means to be more 

 than one block away when a trouble is ended. 



The following from a contemporary describes a land 

 which would be a dog trainer's paradise: "Quail are so 

 numerous as to be classed as pests in Arizona. The birds 

 entirelj' destroyed nine acres of beans for William Fair near 

 Yuma. They appear by thousands and eat the plants en- 

 tirely oft' the ground. Southern California formerly suf- 

 fered from the same cause, but the birds have been depleted 

 by sportsmen to such an extent that they have ceased to 

 bother farmers materially." 



Mr. Chas. W. Barker, the well known field trial handler, 



made a call here yesterday. He was en route to Indiana, 

 where he will locate and prepare some dogs for the coming 

 trials, the United States, Central, Eastern and Philadelphia 

 club trials. He says that he will have dogs which will 

 make the competition specially warm for the boys this year. 



B. WATERS. 



SOME STRANGE DOGS. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



Having had some experience with dogs of three continents 

 I trust some of the following desultory hints may perhaps 

 prove interesting to one or the other of your readers. 



You have doubtless heard something about the Irish wolf- 

 hound who figures on the national coat of arms together 

 with harp and watch tower? I wonder whether the breed is 

 extinct? As late as 1889 there was at Dublin Zoo a cross be- 

 tween the genuine Irish wolfhound and wolf, a fierce brute 

 certainly. The father, an alleged thoroughbred wolfhound, 

 had been the property of one of the professors of Trinity 

 College, Dublin (Prof. Maheft'y), who used him to guard 

 sheep on his estates. If the breed could be revived I fancy 

 they would beat hollow barzois (or psovois). 



I myself kept a dog with wolfhound .strain in him in Ire- 

 land; I had by the interposition of a friend got it sent as a 

 present from an Irish gentleman near Londonderry, well 

 known for his fine breed. The animal somewhat resembled 

 a deerhound, but the jaws and teeth were stronger, muzzle 

 more pointed, and the tail a rich full bloomed fantail. 

 Color between cream and tawny. 



There is another breed of greyhounds that would surprise 

 many habitues of dog shows. During my college days in 

 Paris there was a Roumanian student, Mr. Zambaco, who 

 was a well known figure in the Quartier liatin. He never 

 appeared in the streets without two or three smooth grey- 

 hounds; one, a smooth do?, fawn colored, with full plumed 

 tail. He must have stood nearly a4iu., to judge from com- 

 parisons with great Danes I knew at the time. If the Mr. 

 Zamljaco whom you mentioned in one of your last numbers 

 in regard to some question about psovois "is the gentleman, 

 he might be kind enough to let you have the measure ot 

 that exceedingly powerful as well as handsome dog. 



There is another elegant breed unknown to most lovers of 

 dogs; it is the dog of the Patagonian Canoe Indians that in- 

 fest y-nyih (Jhannel and Magellan Straits. The breed is 

 strongly marked as a distinctive and fixed kind. They most 

 nearly recall a blue or silver fox, color is a nice .silver gray, 

 with black on face, ears, and along the spine.- Size: that of 

 a bull-terrier, or even Pomeranian. One of the chief cla^ims 

 to attention is the snakelike elegance of their movements. 

 I have never seen a dog, not even a greyhound, move so 

 lithely and catlike. They are remarkably intelligent, and 

 as lively as mercurjT. I have seen them at home as well as 

 at the zoological gardens of Santiago de Chile. 



It may interest some of your readers that to all accounts 

 Asia possesses two hitherto almo.st unknown giant-breeds of 

 dogs. There is first the Thibetan dog, or to specify "dogge." 

 We all know the head of that dog from Youatt, Stonehenge 

 and others that had a chance to study the individual at the 

 London Zoo. It is a kind of gigantic spaniel or St. Bernard, 

 and it seems worthy of notice that it comes to us from the 

 north of the Himalayas, just as the holy breed came to us 

 from the north of the Alps. By the way he seems to have 

 I'een the dog seot to Alexander the Great by a King of 

 Epirus, which dog we are told, alone tackled a,nd killed a 

 lion — for this dog came from India. 



But now 1 wish to state on the best of authorities that the 

 shepherd tribes of Kurdistan and lesser Armenia possess a 

 dog consulerably surpassing io. si^e aoytbing we can put up, 



